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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. etcd vs. EventStoreDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.eventstore.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Event Store Limited

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2003

Current release

3.4, August 2019

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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